| Acronym | Meaning |
| GBCD | Grain Boundary Character Distribution |
| AHERA | Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response Act |
| SAGE | Serial Analysis Of Gene Expression |
| BTK | Bruton Tyrosine Kinase |
| HBJ | Hougen-Bunker-Johns (Hamiltonian For Mol. Calcns.) |
| O/E | Observed Number/expected Number Ratio = Relative Risk |
| GPIB | General Purpose Interface Bus |
| DAHS | Data Acquisition And Handling System |
| 2DEG | Two-dimensional Electron Gas |
| MBMS | Molecular Beam Mass Spectrometry |